Lamb's Criticism: A Selection from the Literary Criticism of Charles LambThe University Press, 1923 - 114 Seiten |
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... truth , just as to Plato the very beauty of all poetry was like a Siren - song that diverted men's minds from the proper philosophic serenity . The obvious example in English of creative criticism gone wrong is Francis Thompson's Essay ...
... truth , just as to Plato the very beauty of all poetry was like a Siren - song that diverted men's minds from the proper philosophic serenity . The obvious example in English of creative criticism gone wrong is Francis Thompson's Essay ...
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... truth not only about Francis Thompson ( which they do ) but about Shelley likewise . Thus it is that a man may well prefer the safer and less ambitious forms of criticism , in which reason is mixed in larger pro- portion , and caprice ...
... truth not only about Francis Thompson ( which they do ) but about Shelley likewise . Thus it is that a man may well prefer the safer and less ambitious forms of criticism , in which reason is mixed in larger pro- portion , and caprice ...
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... truth . Sidney is in general a much smaller critic than Dryden , but twice at least he has penetrated nearer the truth than Dryden ever did : once when in comparing the world of nature with the poet's he fixes in words ' the breath and ...
... truth . Sidney is in general a much smaller critic than Dryden , but twice at least he has penetrated nearer the truth than Dryden ever did : once when in comparing the world of nature with the poet's he fixes in words ' the breath and ...
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... truth ; namely that his very faults , his amateurishness and lack of range , helped him to concentrate the more intensely on what he loved , and to reach a more intimate sympathy with it . There are men , of whom Dryden and Hazlitt are ...
... truth ; namely that his very faults , his amateurishness and lack of range , helped him to concentrate the more intensely on what he loved , and to reach a more intimate sympathy with it . There are men , of whom Dryden and Hazlitt are ...
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... Truth . ' Granted that he was true enough to his nature to make out the worst case he could against himself , we must admit that his self - accusation is substantially true . It is impossible to deny that Lamb was lacking in range ...
... Truth . ' Granted that he was true enough to his nature to make out the worst case he could against himself , we must admit that his self - accusation is substantially true . It is impossible to deny that Lamb was lacking in range ...
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